Oracle Hardware Management Pack server CLI tools might fail on systems running Linux 5 or 6 with older versions of the Linux kernel. This issue is seen with Oracle Hardware Management Pack versions 2.3.3.0 through 2.3.5.0.

For example, when running a command such as fwupdate -V to obtain the version of fwupdate tool, you will see an error in the command output, the command will fail, and the following message will be seen in syslog:

fwupdate version 2.3.5.0 r19425
Thu Feb  4 07:20:02 2016:(CLI) Fishwrap version 4.1.0
Thu Feb  4 07:20:02 2016:(CLI) Host Profile update failed.

Workaround

If you encounter this issue, update your Linux kernel to version 2.6.32 or later.